♥ Sunday, April 22, 2007 ♥
9:41:00 PM
maybe i'm slowly losing the confidence i once had. probably it's due to my dearest 4e3. somehow studying seems weird without them. without them to study together with me just feel entirely different. somehow it feels as if i lost an arm or something cause i know, whenever i'm unsure about anything i've lots of people to fall back to and i know, they wont leave me behind. now, i'm unsure of what the future holds for me. I admit i do make friends, but i know, it takes time for me to know their inner self as well.
i wanna share my work piece with you people.. some inner thoughts of myself and my profession (= and i wanna thank ridzwan, kingston and yingyun for helping me!! thanks people! x)
the question: do you think that nurses should always be selfless and courageous?
I believe that they (nurses) should always place their patient’s health as the priority instead of their personal feelings. This is because the main aim of being a nurse is to delicate their service to the health care and ensure their patients take the least number of days to recover. If every nurse always thinks about his or her feelings as the priority, then the service they provide for their patients will definitely suffer and many patients will take plenty days to recover from their illness. If this happens in the long run, the entire workforce in that particular country will suffer as none of the nurses will try their best to provide service to the sick. The hospital and the patients will have to spend a huge sum of money as the patient stays for a longer period of time in the hospital.
A nurse has to be courageous as they, being the role model of the public, should be able to face with danger every time they are in the hospital as they, themselves have to expose their own bodies to the bacterial and germs that are available in the wards. If all the nurses are fearful of death and refused to work, then there will not be able people who will render their services to the sick and thus, it’ll result in more death in the particular country.
However, there would be times when nurses should be selfish. For example, when they are handling patient 1 by helping them to go to a certain location such as aiding them to the toilet, a family member of patient 2 comes and asks the nurse to help. The nurse should be selfish by rejecting the family member of patient 2 as patient 1 may have problems with his own and thus, he needed a nurse. If the nurse decides to go with the family member and leave patient 1 there, he (patient 1) may have a fall and injured himself. Thus I believe to a certain extent, a nurse may have some acts of selfishness. However, in this case, the nurse may choose to let another nurse go with patient 2’s family member.
The nurse can be afraid of death to some degree as well. They themselves are also a human being and may have their own family or parents to take care of. Therefore, it is not unusual for a nurse to be afraid of death as they might not want their own family to grieve over their death. In addition, they might have their own worries like having to take care of a young child in the family. In addition the nurses themselves might be the sole breadwinner of the family and thus they should not be “killed” by the illness thus it is reasonable enough not to work at the very front line to render their service to health care.
up to you to agree a not, but to a certain extent, i think i'm quite reasonable =)) anyway, it was my discussion topic actually. tomorrow's lesson will be a breeze. one lecture and one tutorial and class ending at 12pm. But got to stay back for my project work and for kayaking. hope things will be fun everyday =D
